What is pskoett-ai-skills copilot-instructions.md?

A set of Copilot instructions for working in the pskoett-ai-skills project. It emphasizes thinking first, keeping solutions simple, and making only targeted code changes.

Guiding Copilot while it plans and edits code in the pskoett-ai-skills repository.

It gives Copilot consistent project rules, reducing unnecessary rewrites and changes outside the requested work.

How pskoett/pskoett-ai-skills configures GitHub Copilot

Reuse

Borrowing it

Nothing to install: this file belongs to pskoett/pskoett-ai-skills. Take a copy, put it at the same path in your own repository, and replace the rules that are about this project with yours.

Copy the file

curl -O https://raw.githubusercontent.com/pskoett/pskoett-ai-skills/main/.github/copilot-instructions.md

Clone the repo

git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/pskoett/pskoett-ai-skills

Made for: GitHub Copilot.

Wrote this? Show the measurements

A badge with what this costs and how it scanned, read live from this page, so it follows the numbers instead of freezing them. Markdown for a README, HTML for a documentation site or a project page.

README.md

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Your own site

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Or the 80×15 button, for a site that already has a row of RSS and ATOM ones. Only the verdict fits; the numbers stay here.

Your own site · 80×15

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Per session 1,499 This file is loaded in full into every session.

When invoked 1,499 The same file — it is already loaded in full.

Security scan A 0 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe.

Origin unknown No closer match found in the catalogue.

Token cost

What it costs to keep this loaded

Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.

Model	Per session	Once invoked
Fable 5.1	$0.01499	$0.01499
Opus 5.5	$0.00600	$0.00600
Sonnet 5.5	$0.00300	$0.00300
Haiku 4.5	$0.00150	$0.00150

Measured 12d ago against content hash 6a596b9a6e87, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

pskoett-ai-skills copilot-instructions.md scanned grade A with 0 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured 12d ago.

A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.

Nothing flagged

None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.

.github/copilot-instructions.md · 127 lines

The source is not reproduced here

No licence file

Read it on GitHub

Changes

What this file has done since we first saw it

Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.

12d ago Changed · +2 lines · +43 tokens per session 6a596b9a6e87
19d ago Changed · +2 lines · +72 tokens per session f5384efd853a
2mo ago Changed · +7 lines · +139 tokens per session 0f020c90f722
2mo ago First seen · 116 lines · 1,245 tokens per session scan A ec96f789cd60

Subscribe to this mod's changes

pskoett-ai-skills copilot-instructions.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository pskoett/pskoett-ai-skills (328 stars, last pushed 10d ago), with no licence file. It adds 1,499 tokens to every session, about $0.0060 per session on Opus 5.5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-30.

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pskoett-ai-skills: Instructions file for GitHub Copilot